• Text indent property enables you to convert how the first line of any element is indented without having to use preformatted HTML tags or inserting spaces manually. Normally, the first line of every paragraph is slightly indented.
• The value of text-indent can be specified using either percentage or length values.
• Percentage refers to the parent element's width.
• Negative values are also permitted.
• Common-use of text-indent would be to indent a paragraph.

Example

• This property accepts shadow effects to be applied to the text of the element.
• Each shadow effect must specify a shadow offset and may optionally specify a blur radius and a shadow color.
• A shadow offset is specified with two length values that indicate the distance from the text. The first length value specifies the horizontal distance to the right of the text. The second length value specifies the vertical distance below the text.
• The color value may optionally be specified before or after the length values of the shadow effect.

• This property controls capitalization effects of letters.
• It can have the values: none, capitalize, uppercase, and lowercase.
    none - This means no capitalization is made.
    capitalize - This sets the first letter of each word to uppercase.
    uppercase - This sets all letters to uppercase.
    lowercase - This sets all letters to lowercase.

Example

• This property will determine how white-space inside an element is handled.
• It can have the values- normal, pre, or nowrap.
    normal- This commands the browser to ignore the white space.
    pre- This will show all spaces in the text rather than ignoring all occurrences of more than one space.
    nowrap- This will never wrap the text, the text will continue on the same line until a <br> tag is encountered.

• With word spacing property, you are able to specify the exact value of the spacing between your words.
• You can increase or decrease the space between words.
• It can have the values- normal or length.
• Negative values are allowed.
    normal- This defines normal space between words.
    length- This defines a fixed space between words.
• By default, word-spacing is normal.

Example

In this chapter you have learnt:

• Formatting of text using different style options
• Changing the text color and direction
• Increasing or decreasing the letter spacing and word spacing
• Aligning text and other possible transformations

Fill in the blanks

1. RGB stands for _____, _____ and _____.
2. Direction of the text can have values _____ and _____.
3. The _____ property allows increasing and decreasing of spaces between characters.
4. The _____ property controls capitalization effects of letters.

1. Red, Green, Blue
2. rtl, ltr
3. Letter-spacing
4. Text-transform

True or False

Direction of the text can be set as up-to-down and down-to-up.

1. Letter spacing property can have negative values.
2. The default value of text align property is center.
3. Overline value defines a line over the text.

1. False
2. True
3. False
4. True